636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great haunted-house stories. I think that's one of the all-time greatest.

I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

I think everyone self-mythologizes.

'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in the world, and guess what? Mom kind of likes him!' And that's the end.

I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York, because even if you've never been there, you think you know what it's like. To do it in any sort of fresh way is trickier.

I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes.